2002 Citroen Saxo Furio from UK and Ireland - Comments

Wheel trim fell off (probably a blessing in disguise-get alloys!)

Passenger's seat feels a bit loose.

Starting to rattle.

That's all!

Good value car. Reasonable looks and performance for price.

Comes in a choice of nice colours-Icelandic Grey is one to look out for. A bit on the basic side overall though.

Fantastic handling! Ride suffers a bit as a result, but you forgive it! Brakes are also excellent, just like a proper Citroen.

Seems to pick up dents easy, but many have commented on the looks in a positive way.

Dealers aren't fantastic though, make sure you haggle hard and go in head first-they'll back down!!

Good insurance premiums on this car, fuel economy is OK.

Pace is better than I'd expected, easily will do 100mph without hardly any pressure on the throttle at all! In fact is a tiny bit off a VTR really! Keeps up with Zetec-S Fiestas OK too.

Overall a good value, fun to drive car. A tad too common perhaps? A bit flimsy and basic, but you get what you pay for!

Better than a 106.

From reading that I wonder what these two are on about. There is 15bhp between a VTR and Furio, and about 1.5secs 0-60mph too. Granted the VTR is more torquey and on the motorways would be noticably quicker, but from a standing start there wouldn't be much in it. The other main factor of course is the skill of the driver!

And besides neither of them are quick cars, including the Fiesta. Sounds like a case of "VTR Attitude" to me!

The furio is a great bit of kit. In an Elise kind of way it is a "back to basics" kind of car. The point in the rev range where the torque/ power kicks in is far better matched for the gearbox than in the VTR. You might not blow away the hot hatch brigade, but you'll have great fun trying. You will also be driving a car that seldom goes wrong has cheap insurance, tax and is very economical. To better this car is to get a VTS, but think of the running costs.

Look I've had both now a VTR and a furio and to tell you the truth there is no differnce between then I've raced both against the other my VTR anaints my mates furio and vise versa they are extreamly close. and if you put an exhaust and induction kit on a furio then they are identical.

There is absolutely no way a 75bhp furio can keep up wiht cars of a similar weight with 25-30 bhp more and more torque, it just isn't possible. Maybe the other people were terrible drivers or just didn't car, because there is no way a furio could keep up with my zetec-s, a vtr yeah, but not a furio.

Well you see that's why your wrong cose my furio out dose zetecs and I can keep up with vtrs and vts all you have to do is ajust the furios power boost to max, if you don't know where it is then you don't know much about cars then do u.

I got a C3 1.4i SX Auto and I have bomb passed Saxo Furio's VTR and even a VTS on Duel Carridge ways and overtaken on main roads like the A470 in South Wales etc. but my Automtic Gear Box has Sport mode so I do give the Saxo Furio/VTR/VTS benifit of the doubt. I was behind a Saxo 1.1i Desire on a hill one day and I couldn't keep up with it. It went bloodie fast up the hill. I liked my P reg Saxo 1.6i SX Auto now that was a fast car.

Hmm power boost. Didn't the furio had that?? but anyway, where is it. Do tell.

My last car was a Pug 106 Quiksilver (almost identical in every way to a saxo furio/west coast), which had an induction kit, cat replacement pipe, and full stainless steel system, which boosted the power considerably. When I bought a VTR, it was quicker and had more torque as standard than the modified 106. There is no way that a furio could match the VTR for performance.

Also worthy of noting, is that the "in gear" speed times, for example 30-60 in 4th gear, are much better in the VTR due to the greater torque figures.

I have a furio. I havn't raced a Zetec S and I wouldn't try because I wouldn't win.

I have raced a VTR from the traffic lights which I beat in first gear. As soon as I changed to second it started to come past. I don't make things up either. So no-one needs to start saying its impossible.

I think the furio seems faster than it is due to its well matched engine-gearbox set up.

No it seems perfectly believable that you stayed with a VTR in 1st gear, I'm mean the ratio is so low that most cars would seem to be matched in 1st gear. Its 2nd gear that you notice the big difference in performance.

In my opinion I have raced a furio and a vtr, and the furio did not stand a chance, the furio is not quick at all, I used to own a 1.4 golf, which is twice the size of a saxo, and I used to beat furio's, but did not stand a chance against a vtr, I can't see how people can say they are close?

What reg was your Golf. My friend had a 1.4 golf ona k plate. It was slow, my renault 5 1.1 could just about keep up. After my 5 I bought a Furio. Which I thought was quick for a while, then I got bored and bought a VTR. The VTR is quicker than the Furio btw. I noticed this on my test drive as when I went to drive away I nearly limited it before even letting the clutch out. And I wasn't trying to go fast, I was pulling out of the garage forecourt. My friend has a Furio now and he said he noticed a big difference between mine and his, as he couldnt keep up. The 2000 onwards VTR has a different gearbox to the pre 2000 VTR. The older car has longer gears. The post 2000 one has the a similar gearbox to the furio I think. will hit the limiter at 60 in second same as the furio did. Anyway I don't speed around anymore. 1.1's and Furio's beat me all the time and think they are great, except they didn't realise that I wasnt trying. So they come on here and say how great they are beating VTR's.

Well I will have you know I have a Furio with a 16v conversion; the power to weight ratio is amazing. 110BHP, and I can stay with a standard VTS to 105 MPH.

VTR drivers think they are fast, and that is why I have left my Furio badge on, as I love to look at their face when I leave them in EVERY gear.

You either get a Furio or a VTS, there's no inbetween VTR.

I got the idea of a 16v conversion from a friend who already has one, however he has a straight though pipe induction kit, cams and pulleys, and forged pistons, and that goes past Civic Type R's After all it does have 165BHP.

Standard VTR's are faster than standard furio's, yours is tuned, a 16v conversion is no small modd. you could have just got a VTS.

And after all the civic has 200bhp and after that my astra vxr has 237 bhp...